Dobbs Ferry High School junior Eric Paschall may break Mount Vernon's stranglehold on the Mr. Basketball award, which a Knight has won eight years running.

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From the moment Eric Paschall ambled unassumingly into Dobbs Ferry's gym last November, it was on - the 20-point nights, range that stretched like a millionaire's budget and those wicked two-handed dunks. But ask the Eagles' agreeable coach, Scott Patrillo, about Paschall's freshman-to-sophomore leap and he suddenly stops nodding.

"Where it was last year to where he is right now, it's night and day again," Patrillo said. "It's like we saw the same leap that we saw from his freshman to sophomore year when he came in this fall. It was like that all over again."